This project started out with a slingshot, and sort of evolved to this (video below). I'm working with how anxiety feels again, specifically the cyclic aspect of this illness as it returns. Since I feed the crows daily, I thought they *might* assist me in the making, adding a cyclic element ... but - I was wrong! Watch the link below. Unfortunately, I was in class when the crows decided to land and really do a number on the paper - way she goes in print! This work is still in progress: the crows literally destroyed and shredded the paper, creating more meaning to my work than I could have ever imagined. I'll update later.
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Update: Ok so this project definitely didn't turn out at all like I thought it would - but it did turn out to symbolize exactly what anxiety feels like as it returns in cyclic ways to my body. In order to stitch this together, I had to rearrange it like a puzzle, using embroidery thread to connect the pieces. I noticed some pieces just could not return the same way that they did before, despite the near perfect slice the crows did. I considered how similar this was to the feeling of anxiety and the pressure to continue on as usual, that precarious connecting and fragile state of a once perfectly solid piece, barely able to contain itself until the next unexpected explosion of violent energy. What it left is the randomness of a broken sentence; information that has been unacknowledged for so long its presence is irrelevant. What actually matters is the initial break itself.
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